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For folks from the non-networking world, default route means basically a path to send packets when you do not have a specific route. So e.g if you know how to send packets to Google, send it, for Netflix, send it, for say Amazon - no path? Well, no worries, just send via a default path. So default route is basically what takes traffic for everything else.

Returning to the post which is not about networking. It’s about default route for home routing table and that’s my mother. :)

Last week I was on way from Kolkata to Delhi after spending time at ISOC IXP workshop. It was Jet Airways 9W 946 on 10th March 2017. The flight took off slightly late and 90% time went just fine. Original arrival time was 16:30 though it was expected to be little late.

Landing time…

At around 16:15 pilots announced “to prepare for landing” and cabin crew started collecting waste and getting people ready. I was sitting on the window seat and looking at clouds on my right. It was a usual view from the window and I usually like when the plane crosses over the clouds. It was little bumpy by 16:20 and that is usual behaviour. As it proceeded it went from “slightly bumpy” to “very bumpy” ride. Somewhere around 16:25 or so plane gave the first feeling of “free fall”. It’s was the same feeling as we get going down the roller coaster but 10x of that. Few people screamed. It reminded me of one of my previous travels from Malaysia to India in 2013 after APRICOT 2013 when the flight was very bumpy and also faced free fall at that time. Next after 2-3 mins plane had another free fall and it went for 10-15 seconds. A Japanese gentleman sitting next to me wasn’t wearing his shoes. One of his shoes literally touched my chest and fell on me. That was the first time I also got quite scared.

So last week I couldn’t hold off my curiosity about world famous address “221b Baker Street”. I passed “Baker Street” tube station quite a few times and finally decided to just look for it. :) By time I reached the street it was lightly raining and I found few other (curious) people like me standing outside 221b Baker Street. It has got a museum for Sherlock Holmes (though was closed by the time I reached).

I just visited Moscow last week for attending ENOG 11. Some quick pictures from this short trip.

I had a nice two day trip to Paihia over weekend. Paihia is one of key tourist towns far up in North. It took around 4 hrs via bus from Auckland. Travel was quite comfortable and place was excellent. I would say Paihia itself was quite a nice place but travel to it was one of best scenic travel I ever had. [gallery link=“file” ids=“3895,3896,3898,3897,3901,3902”]  

I travelled via Inter-city bus. Outside India it’s quite common that just one person takes care of everything on behalf of bus company. Same person works on loading stuff, verifying tickets, and of course driving bus. Most of societies outside India are extremely cool & calm which makes overall service quite doable. Not surprising - same person drove the bus back to Auckland next day and the way he kept on updating, greeting all passengers was just amazing. I never had Haryana roadways folks greeting like that. ;) And oh yes did I mentioned of free wifi in the bus? :)   Although I have yet to upload most of videos I took on the way, here’s a quick video showing way from Auckland to Paihia.